Demodectic Mange recovery time?

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Buddy had that when he was a pup, very common with bully breeds. He had to go to the vet once a week for 6 weeks to get a special medicated bath. Thats how long it took before his skin scrapes came back showing the little buggers were all dead. Then we were giving I believe a topical mite solution for the spots where he had lost the hair. So it took about 2 months before the bugs were dead and the hair grew back.

We got the Ivermectin shot (ask your vet about side effects of the dips, I believe liver failure is one of them). The shot is safer and faster as long as you are not a herding breed (Collies and Austrailian shepherds can't have it). It only took one injection to kill the mites and then her fur grew back within about a month. But she didn't have it bad, and the hair loss was just bald patches mostly on her legs and a bit on her face.